Bruce Brumfield, CEO of Founders Federal Credit Union, will serve as chairman for the 2011 Piedmont South Carolina March for Babies, which includes the Lancaster, Chester, Cheraw, Chesterfield and Kershaw areas.

He is committed to helping reach the event goal of $40,000 to support March of Dimes’ research and community programs to help moms have full-term pregnancies and babies to begin healthy lives.

KERSHAW – The gymnasium erupted in loud cheers after all the graduates crossed the stage Friday afternoon at Andrew Jackson High School.

As is common policy during commencement ceremonies, the crowd was asked not to make noise when an individual student’s name was called. So that meant hundreds of family members and friends had to wait to let their loved one hear their level of love and pride on this special day.

Buford High School’s Class of 2011 might be the smallest graduating class of Lancaster County’s four high schools, but it celebrated in a big way during this year’s commencement exercises Friday.

Wearing the school’s traditional maroon and gold, the school’s 116 graduating seniors, and the hundreds of families and friends there to celebrate with them, held their tongues for the most part until the last diploma was awarded.

INDIAN LAND – A fanfare of “Pomp and Circumstances” and cheering filled the air as the 134 members of Indian Land High School’s Class of 2011 marched into the school’s gymnasium Friday for the last official act of their high school careers – graduation.

This year’s class was the first to complete all four years of school together in the new Indian Land High School building, Principal Kathy Faris said during her welcome.

A package caused quite a commotion when it arrived at the Lancaster post office Thursday, but local authorities were ready for it.

As part of a joint operation between the Lancaster Police Department, Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Postal Service, a Lancaster man was arrested Thursday after he accepted a package that was mailed to him containing 15.7 ounces of marijuana.

Authorities have arrested two people and are searching for one more from an April shooting that wounded a Heath Springs man.

According to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office press release, a Rock Hill woman and a Charlotte man were arrested separately over the last month in connection with an April 20 incident in which a man was shot after interrupting an apparent burglary.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team raided the Hells Angels MC South Carolina Nomads clubhouse on Doby’s Bridge Road in Indian Land on Thursday evening, though sheriff’s officials are remaining tight-lipped as to why.

Maj. David Belk with the sheriff’s office offered few details regarding the incident, except to say the sheriff’s SWAT team conducted the operation at the request of the Rock Hill Police Department.